[qubes-users] Using 2 monitors in full screen mode with one application spanning both monitors

2020-03-22 Thread Robin Green
I am running VMWare Horizon in a trusted VM in order to WFH. It is able to detect and use both monitor geometries for what you might call a "double-full screen mode" - however, even though I have enabled full-screen mode for this trusted AppVM in /etc/qubes/guid.conf on dom0, Qubes unfortunatel

[qubes-users] Setting up IPv6 tunnel in netvm

2019-06-22 Thread Robin Green
This is my experience report after finally successfully setting up an IPv6 tunnel in sys-net in Qubes R4.0 and configuring things so that AppVMs could use it. It was quite a struggle - some things did not work as I expected. Steps I followed to make it work: 1. Put the commands from Hurricane Ele

[qubes-users] Dual boot Qubes R4.0 and Windows 10 on EFI system

2018-05-19 Thread Robin Green
I am trying to follow the instructions on https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/ but grub is not even installed, so there is no such directory /etc/grub.d/ Does that page need to be updated? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To

[qubes-users] Windows 8.1 HVM - Windows mouse pointer moves at wrong speed

2017-10-28 Thread Robin Green
After my Windows 8.1 VM updated itself today, first the Windows mouse pointer disappeared entirely, and then when I rebooted it, it stopped moving as far as the Qubes mouse pointer, so the two mouse pointers became out of sync. The solution was to go into the Control Panel in Windows and in Mous

Re: [qubes-users] How to set file association in disposable VMs?

2017-01-04 Thread Robin Green
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 at 00:16 Unman wrote: > Did you actually read that bug report? Yes. > I'm amazed it's still open. > > I assume that you are using a Fedora template Yes. > since 'mimeopen' > works for a vanilla Debian template. > I don't think the Fedora template uses mimeopen directly

Re: [qubes-users] How to set file association in disposable VMs?

2017-01-03 Thread Robin Green
On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 at 03:14 Unman wrote: > > > Original Message > > > Subject: [qubes-users] How to set file association in disposable VMs? > > > Local Time: December 29, 2016 7:48 PM > > > UTC Time: December 29, 2016 11:48 AM > > > From: gree...@gmail.com > > > To: qubes-users

Re: [qubes-users] How to set file association in disposable VMs?

2016-12-29 Thread Robin Green
I *have* changed my MIME type associations - at least, I think that's what I've done. On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 at 13:28 WillyPillow wrote: > Original Message > Subject: [qubes-users] How to set file association in disposable VMs? > Local Time: December 29, 2016 7:48 PM > UTC Time: D

[qubes-users] How to set file association in disposable VMs?

2016-12-29 Thread Robin Green
I have configured Nautilus in an AppVM to open PDF files with Okular, and I've then done the same configuration (as user "user") in the TemplateVM that the disposable VMs are also based on. However, when I choose "Open in disposable VM" from that reconfigured AppVM, even though the dispvm savefi

[qubes-users] Certain HTTP requests repeatedly hang

2016-10-02 Thread Robin Green
Some examples: * Emacs fails to update packages and always hangs on the same package - at least over the period of a few hours. A few weeks ago it was hanging midway trying to download haskell-mode, most recently it was markdown-mode. * The sbt launcher jar can't download sbt. This is a very ea